The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t want a flyer
It’s Edinburgh Festival time up here, so we’re all in a foul mood. Will the FCA booting the mooted ‘core investment advice’ regime into touch help?
The Top Class Wednesday Update prepares hatches for battening
SJP and 1825 have both been in the news this week with chunky value write downs. Is that cold east wind starting to blow?
The Top Class Wednesday Update has re-entry issues
Consumer Duty day is coming. Meantime mucking around with pension death benefits is going on again and Space Karen has gone X.
“Perception is reality”: The provider view on service
In the final part of our mini-series on service and what it really means, we hear from abrdn chief commercial and strategy officer Jonny Black.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is going to have a sunburned nose and she’s not happy about it
Alison Gay looks at how The Financial Services and Markets Act replaces retained EU law with a ‘Smarter Regulatory Framework’. We’ll see.
“It’s really hard to know the truth”: The paraplanner view on service
Continuing our mini-series on what service really means, next up we hear from Siân Davies Cole from Plan Works.
The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t do unsubstantiated attention seeking headlines
Tom McPhail takes us through the Mansion House Reforms and a blizzard of policy papers on pension schemes, retail disclosures and investment pathways.
How to get to better platform service: the lang cat view
We’ve decided to make service a key focus here at the lang cat. In the first of a three-part mini-series Steve talks us through some recent research findings.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is blowing out a candle
Our senior public affairs consultant, Alison Gay, reflects on her first year at the lang cat and how regulation has developed in that time.
Are we ready? Yes – and no
Is the industry ready for Consumer Duty? Alison Gay looks at the results of an FCA survey of smaller firms in the industry.
